Macrothyatira conspicua

Macrothyatira conspicua
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Drepanidae
Genus: Macrothyatira
Species: M. conspicua
Binomial name
Macrothyatira conspicua
(Leech, 1900)
Synonyms
  • Thyatira conspicua Leech, 1900

Macrothyatira conspicua is a moth in the Drepanidae family.[1] It is found in China (Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Hunan, Fujian, Sichuan, Yunnan) and Taiwan.[2]

The forewings are pale fuscous brown, traversed by faint wavy lines. There is an irregularly shaped white basal patch, marked with black spots and outlined with black. The stigmata is white, outlined with black and there is a large white patch at the middle of the costa traversed by short dark lines and another towards the apex preceded and followed by black lines. There are some smaller white spots with black outlines on the outer part of the inner margin. The hindwings are yellowish, with a blackish subterminal band, outwardly diffuse.[3]

References

  1. LepIndex
  2. Jiang, N., Yang, C., Xue, D-Y. & Han, H-X. 2015: An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species. zootaxa 2015 3941.
  3. Seitz, Adalbert. The Macrolepidoptera of the World: A Systematic Description of the Hitherto Known Macrolepidoptera; 1913